Belt-retaining device.



y J. B, PENSTERWALD & J. GBIGBR.

BELT RETAINING DEVICE.

APPLICATION EILBD PEB. 1, 1912.

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JULIUS B. FENSTERVALD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AND JACOB GEIGER, OE NASH- VILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNORS ONE-THIRD TO JOE FENSTERWALD, OF NASH- VILLE, TENNESSEE.

BELT-RETAINING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

T0 all fui/0m 25 may concern.'

Be it known that we, JULIUs B. FENSTER- wALD and JACOB GEIGER, citizens ot the United States, residing, respectively, at

Baltimore, Maryland, and Nashville, in the county of Davidson, State of Tennessee, have invented al new and useful Belt-Retaining Device, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject-matter of this application aims to provide a novel forni of supporting member, adapted to be connected with the tongue of a buckle, and with a garment, whereby the buckle of which the tongue constitutes a part, together1 with the belt which is engaged by the buckle, may be upheld upon the garment.

vl/*ith the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details or" construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment oit invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 shows in perspective, a portion of a garment to which one form of the invention has been applied; Fig. 2 is a perspective of a portion of a garment to which another form ot' the invention has been applied; Fig. 8 is a detail perspective of that form of supporting member which is employed in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective showing a modiiied form. of the invention.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a garment, which may be a pair of pantaloons. rEhe garment l is split, as shown at 2, to form flaps 3 and 4. Upon the `flap 3 there is commonly located a hook 5, adapted to engage with the loop 6 upon the tlap 4. Instead of the hook 5, a but-ton 7 is sometimes employed, as shown in Fig. 2, the button 7 being received in a buttonhole upon the flap 4, as is common and well understood.

rI`he belt which is applied to the garment is denoted by the numeral 8, and the ends of the belt are united by a common buckle 9, having a tongue 10, engaging the holes 10 in one end of the belt.

The supporting member employed in Fig. l, is shown in detail in Fig. 3, and is there denoted generally by the numeral 11. This supporting member 11 is an open loop, bent as shown at'12, to form angularly disposed parts 14 and 15. The end 16 of the part 14 is bent upon itself, or is otherwise disposed, to fashion an eye 17.

In practical operation, the tongue 10 of the buckle is inserted through the eye 17, the part 14 of the supporting member eX- tending across the edge of the garment, and the part 15 lying approximately parallel to the inner face of the garment, the end 18 of the part 15 being engaged over the hook 5, as will be readily understood upon an inspection of Fig. 1.

That form of the invention shown in Fig. 2 embraces many of the parts shown in Fig. 3, the parts already described in connection with Fig. 8 being indicated in Fig. 2 by the same reference numerals, with the sutlix a. rlhe end 18a of the part 15, however, is prolonged to form a button-engaging loop 19, the loop 19 being contracted to form an entering throat 20. As will be readily understood, the stitching of the button 7 will pass through the throat 2O and enter the loop 19.

It desired, the invention may be modified as shown in Fig. 4. The device there shown diiiers from the structure shown in Fig. 3, only in the omission of thevtongue receiving eye 17 of Fig. 3. Referring to Fig. 4, an open loop is shown, the same being bent as shown at 21, to form angularly disposed parts 22 and 23. The end bar 24 of the part 22 may be engaged with the tongue 10, and the end bar 25 of the part 23 may be engaged With the hook 5, or With the button 7; the

device, however, being adapted primarily for usein connection With the hook 5.

Having thus described the invention, what 5 is claimed is A device of the class described comprising e loop Vflexed intermediate its ends to form angularly disposed parts, one of which parts is terminally provided with a tongue-receivg ing eye, the other of which parts is provided with a projecting button-receiving throat opening into the loop.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own, We have hereto affixed our signatures 1n the presence of tWo Witnesses.

JULIUS B. FENSTERWALD. JACOB GEIGER.

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